Velvet Moth Studio

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

A summer tag using a Geranium die and a colour that I don't often use - mauve. I'm not awfully comfortable working with mauve but it's such a pretty colour I should use it more. I was going to hang this round the neck of a bottle of wine, but the back is so marked where I'm such a messy worker that it shall be turned into a birthday card to accompany the wine instead!!

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

I've been trying to use up old stash before buying any more new stuff - well the good intentions are there but it's difficult!

I have an over-flowing box of diamante charms, a real mix of new and old, some are vintage earrings from boot fairs, with the backs cut off and some are new and what I call 'couldn't resist' buys! Anyway, I've made a start and here are a couple of the cards I've been making for imminent birthdays!

Black glitter card used above and Ranger black enamel used below

I also wanted to show off the loveliest ATC, which arrived from Sandra de - it was such a nice surprise and really brightened by day.

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Messing about with wax and using up pressed flowers from last summer, while pressing more from the garden this week - a very relaxing play time!I do love the little houses die, and I discovered I also love poking holes in wax - very satisfying!

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

What a lovely week it's been - for someone who wasn't participating in the swap I received two gorgeous ATC's from Jan and BJ and I used a couple of ATC sized card toppers I'd made that were ideal to return. All I had to do was dig out the stamps again and decorate the envelopes.

Thank you BJ and Jan - I love the typing on the heart, so dinky, and I also LOVE that butterfly button in the middle of Jan's!

Have a good week everyone and you can hop over to Julia's at WOYWW herefor this weeks snoop around the desks.

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

I've inadvertently been taking a blog break - it wasn't planned but I just haven't had the time or the inclination to get stuck into things in my studio!

However, when Jan reminded me it was the 8th anniversary of WOYWW this week I knew I had to pull my finger out and join in.

On my desk for the last 3 weeks has been a bag of stash I purchased at the Brockenhurst Needlework Fiesta, a great yearly event I try never to miss. So I pulled my finger out and went to great effort last night and took the items out of the carrier bag to photograph them - hopefully I'll have them put away by next week!

I have two bundles of sari silk ribbon - I was seduced by the colour, hand-dyed embroidery yarns and velvet for a couple of projects I'm planning, and I just can't get enough matte cream beads, as you probably guessed!

Happy 8th AnniversaryWOYWW - and a big thank you to our host Julia who does all the hard work to keep this great party going!

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

I've been finding a little time to mess about in my Summer Night Garden sketchbook. I came across some gelli prints that I had printed a while back but never got round to doing anything with. So I thermofax printed, cut, tore, glued and collaged!

I want to say a big thank you to everyone who left such kind wishes last week for my hubby's recovery from his hip replacement operation - I really appreciate your thoughtful comments. He is doing incredibly well and is pretty much pain free now - I'm still amazed at how effective this has been - hats off to the NHS, they have done a fantastic job.

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Very little has been happening on my desk lately as the Hubs has had a hip replacement operation during the last two weeks - he was walking around on day 2, walking up and down stairs on day 3 and he was home by day 4 - I was amazed at how quickly they chucked him out of hospital, but he's doing remarkably well despite my lack of nursing skills! Anyway, I managed to grab an hour up in my studio and made some card toppers on some old blank ATC cards. I decided to play with my new insect stamps that I purchased after seeing them onShaz's desk back before Christmas.

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

A birthday card for the Hubs was needed this week and I tried to make it spring like and to reflect his love of nature. I am really enjoying using the fern and bud dies that came as a set by Marianne - I purchased them a few weeks ago in the belief you really can't have too many foliage dies or stamps!! They also feature heavily in the Luminary I made in my last post here!

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I graduated with Honours in Textile Art and now work as a textile and mixed media artist, and photographer. I live on the edge of the New Forest and I am inspired by my garden, the beautiful countryside around me and my love of moths, birds and natural history.